Barack Obama: Speech To The Nation On Passage Of New Health Care Reform Bill

|Name |Justice Gray | |MLA Citation |Obama, Barack. "American Rhetoric: Barack Obama -- Speech to the Nation on Passage of New Health Care Reform Bill ." American Rhetoric: | | |The Power of Oratory in the United States. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2011. | | |. | | |MLA formatting by BibMe.org. | | | | |Genre |Non-fiction, Speech | |Question type |Defend, Refute, Qualify (DRQ) | |Question: “I want to thank every member of Congress who stood up tonight with courage and conviction to make health care reform a reality. And I know this | |wasn’t an easy vote for a lot of people. But it was the right vote.” | | | | | |In the passage above President Obama states that the vote in favor of the health care reform bill was the right vote. Write an insightful, well-organized | |essay that defends, refutes, or...

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